EY16 from Manchester to Abu Dhabi, tracked live

EY16 distance and great-circle path

EY16 covers 5,678 km, or 3,528 miles. That makes it a long-haul flight, a widebody route with a full night's flying time. Of the 283 routes we track, it ranks 162 by distance.

Manchester to Abu Dhabi is 5,678 km (3,528 miles) on an initial heading of 101°, which is broadly east. Watches move 3 hours forward between the two gates. It links United Kingdom with United Arab Emirates.

Our guide explains how the MAN-AUH route appears on a tracker map.

What to know about EY16

• Time change: you land 3 hours ahead of the time you left.

What flying MAN to AUH takes

It is a long-haul sector, a widebody route with a full night's flying time. Etihad Airways needs a widebody twinjet: the sector needs long-range tanks and a cabin crew rest provision, which rules out most single-aisle types. Eastbound, the jet stream is usually a tailwind, so the return leg against it tends to be the longer of the two. In daylight the sun sits on the right (south-facing) side of the cabin for most of the crossing.

How we verified this

The origin and destination on this page are the ones we verified for callsign ETD16 through adsbdb, not a schedule copied from elsewhere. We have logged it airborne on 9 days between 2026-09-20 and 2026-09-28. Timings are observations, not an official operational status: always confirm with the airline before travelling.

This page was published from our own tracking record rather than a third-party schedule feed, so it grows as we see the flight again. The seven-day log below is the raw version of the same evidence.

Our database contains 8 observations of EY16 across 8 UTC dates in this window, most recently 2026-09-28. Those records contain 3 distinct transponder addresses. The most frequently resolved route was MAN-AUH (7 records).

The median recorded visibility was 285 minutes. That is time inside receiver coverage, not airborne duration or an on-time-performance measurement.